Air Force Academy fears Christian influence

WorldNetDaily: Air Force cracks down on Christian 'coercion' :
"Officials at the Colorado Springs military college have instituted a new training program, Respecting the Spiritual Values of People, to teach the cadets, 90% of whom are from Protestant or Catholic backgrounds, tolerance toward non-Christians. The program follows an August survey that found complaints of religious bias."

That sounds fairly reasonable until you look at the survey. Here is what the story reports about the results:
"Thirty percent of the survey's non-Christian respondents believe Christian cadets receive preferential treatment – a perception shared by only 10 percent of Christian respondents. More than half of the non-Christian participants indicated they had 'not felt pressure to be involved in religion.'"

So, a majority of non-Christians said they had not been pressured and that is evidence that there is such pressure that the academy needs a new program to combat an oppressively Christian atmosphere. Only a bureaucrat could follow that chain of reasoning. Fortunately, the Air Force has plenty of bureaucrats.

And, get this marvelous bit of reasoning:
"[AF Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. John] Rosa cited Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ' as an example of the problem being caused by Christians at the academy. When the film was playing locally, some cadets emailed members of their squadron suggesting they see it as a group.
"'People felt they were being coerced,' Rosa says"

Presumably the general means they felt they were being coerced to be Christians. If they had been invited to see the movie "Dumb and Dumber," would they have felt coerced to be stupid? If they had been invited to see Gibson's "The Patriot" or "Braveheart" would they have felt compelled to kill Englishmen? If the academy caters to such weak-minded students, they have a very different sort of problem on their hands.